Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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And looks up now to see two men stood in the entrance to the pub - ABBERLINE and BEST. The crowds of COPPERS - they part respectfully for ABBERLINE, look with a certain hatred at a clearly intimidated BEST. Watch as the two men join REID. All eyes on this triumvirate as, after a moment, REID pushes a buff brown file across the table to BEST -- REID The facts. BEST - his confusion. Taking the file, opening it. His eyes going wide at the photographs within. ABBERLINE can’t believe what REID has just done -- ABBERLINE Have you lost your mind? BEST (to REID) Why? REID
Because it is the truth. And I would have the world know it. (then) She was never Ripper, that girl. But we three... you.. (BEST) for profit. (ABBERLINE) You and I for guilt, I suspect. We wanted it so. (beat) So now I ask us to undertake this: that we take a little joy in his continued absence. And that we then cease to look for him in every act of evil that crosses our path. (beat) There is an abundance of that hereabout and I would have
obsession blinker us to the wider world no longer. Am I understood? BEST - clasping his file to his chest, he nods. REID Then get out. BEST - doing just that. Scurrying away through the ranks of men. Abberline - a long moment -- ABBERLINE
Edmund - this last year, that... lunatic. It will ever bind me to you. But you ask too much. (beat)
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